Xml

BigR · Mar 4, 2005

i am trying to take data from an XML page, and place it into a table in my HTML page. but for some reason it is not working.

this is the html page

Code:

<html>

<body>
<xml
src="cd_catalog.xml"
id="xmldso">
</xml>

<table
datasrc="#xmldso"
width="100%"
border="1">

<thead>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Artist</th>
<th>Year</th>
</thead>

<tr align="left">
<td><span datafld="TITLE"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="ARTIST"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="YEAR"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

and this is a portion of the XML page

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE note SYSTEM "InternalNote.dtd">
- <!--  Edited with XML Spy v4.2 
  --> 
- <CATALOG>
- <CD>
  <TITLE>Empire Burlesque</TITLE> 
  <ARTIST>Bob Dylan</ARTIST> 
  <COUNTRY>USA</COUNTRY> 
  <COMPANY>Columbia</COMPANY> 
  <PRICE>10.90</PRICE> 
  <YEAR>1985</YEAR> 
  </CD>
- <CD>
  <TITLE>Hide your heart</TITLE> 
  <ARTIST>Bonnie Tyler</ARTIST> 
  <COUNTRY>UK</COUNTRY> 
  <COMPANY>CBS Records</COMPANY> 
  <PRICE>9.90</PRICE> 
  <YEAR>1988</YEAR> 
  </CD>
</CATALOG>

also, can this be run anywhere, or does it need something to be installed on teh server (like PHP)

thanks

goldfish · Mar 4, 2005

For a start, get rid of the -'s that got inserted.

The XML file seems to be formed okay... as far as I can tell on first inspection. Whats strange is one of the artist fields does get displayed, but the rest of the fields are blanks. Strange.

I'd just like to take a moment to say in the real world this is a very BAD way of importing XML data into a website, since the commands used are (as far as I know) only fully supported by IE. This method does not require you to have anything running on the server, however pretty much all other methods do require you to be running some sort of server side scripting. Client side data handling is patchy and unpredictable to say the least, server side is much more sensible.

I'll take a look at it though.

bot · Mar 4, 2005

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